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HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES 



RELATING TO THE 



CITY OF DAYTON, OHIO 



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HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES 



LOCATION AND AREA. 

Dayton, the county-seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, is located on both 
banks of the Great Miami River, at the confluence of Stillwater, Mad River, 
and Wolf Creek with the Miami, and on the line of the Miami and Erie 
Canal, sixty miles north-northeast of Cincinnati, and seventy-one miles west 
by south of Columbus. Its latitude is thirty-nine degrees forty-four minutes 
north, and its longitude is eighty-four degrees eleven minutes west from 
Greenwich, or seven degrees eleven minutes west from Washington. It is an 
important station on eleven railroads, which belong to four great systems, 
namely: The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Dayton 
& Western, of the Pennsylvania Lines; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 
& St. Louis and the Dayton & Union, of the "Big Four" System; the Cin- 
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Dayton & Michigan, the Cincinnati, Dayton 
it Ironton, and the Cincinnati, Dayton <& Chicago, of the C, H. & D. System; 
the New York, Pennsylvania it Ohio, of the Erie System; the Dayton, 
Lebanon & Cincinnati Railroad, and the Home Avenue Railroad. Thirty- 
six hard-graveled roads radiate in all directions from the city, with an 
aggregate length of over six hundred miles. The extreme dimensions of 
Dayton arc: cast , and west, five and one-eighth miles; north and south, three 
and one-half miles. Its area is about ten and three-quarters square miles. 

POPULATION. 

L796... .About 36. 1840.... 6,067. 1870.... 30,47a 

1802... Five families. 1845.... 9,792. 1880.. . .38,678. 

181(1.... 383. 1850.... 10,976. 1890.. . .61,220. 

1820.... 1,139. 1800.... 20,081. 1896.. . .About 80,000. 



1830.... 2,9.") 1. 



CITY GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS, 
i Compiled from latest reports.) 



Elected for two years; ex officio president of Board of Police Directors and 
Board of Health, and organizes the City Council; appoints the Board of City 
Affairs, the Tax Commission, Board of Work-House Directors, and Board of 

Elections. 

BOARD OF CITY AFFAIRS. 

Four members; term of office four years, one being appointed each year 
by the Mayor; powers executive. 

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222 HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES 

CITY COUNTl I.. 

Sixteen members, elected from eight wards by the voters of the wards; 
term <>f office two years, half expiring each year; powers legislative. 

Measures Involving expenditure and public franchises must be approved 
by both City Council and Hoard of City Affairs. 

BOARD OF ELECTIONS. 

Three members, appointed by the Mayor, one secretary. 

BOAKI) OF EQTTALIZ VI 'ION. 

Seven members, elected by the City Council. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

City clerk, elected by t he < touncil; treasurer, elected by the people; comp- 
troller, solicitor, engineer, sealer of weights and measures, market-master, 
superintendent of levees, appointed by the Board of City Affairs; wood- 
measurer, elected by the people. 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

Board of Education. — Sixteen members, elected for two years from eight 
wards by the voters of the wards, half being elected each year. 

Officers and Teachers. — Clerk, superintendent of instruction, superintend 
ent of buildings, truant officer, city board of examiners with three members, 
twenty principals, twenty-five High School teachers, three Normal School 
teachers, two Manual Training School teachers, four special teachers, 251 
district school teachers; total number of teachers, 305. 

Enumeration of School Youth ( Between six and twenty-one years of age). — 
Public schools, 10,960; private schools, 240; church schools, 2,102; no1 attend 
ing, 7,276; grand total, 20,578. 

Number of Pupils in Public Schools. — District schools, 5,143 boys, 5,037 girls, 
or a total of 10,180; High School, 297 boys, 174 girls, or a total of 771; Normal 
School, 31; grand total, 10,982. In Manual-Training School, 45 pupils from the 
High School and "ti pupils from the eighth grade of the district schools; 
total, 121. 

Schools. — Nineteen district schools, one high school, one manual training 
school, one normal school, two night grammar schools, two night drawing- 
schools. 

Buildings. — Twenty-nine district buildings, including annexes, one high- 
school building, one library building. Total value in 1895, (1,269,416.50; in- 
cluding personal property, 81,323,525.50. Value of High School: lot, 860,000; 
building, 8255,000; personal property, 811,358; total, 8326,358. 

Finances. — Receipts, exclusive of temporary loans and bonds, for the year 
ending August 31, 1895, 8314,878.14; expenses, exclusive of bonded debt and 
temporary loans, 8355,700.81; bonded debt, August 31, 1895, $485,000. 

PUBLIC LIBRARY. 

Board of six members, elected by the Board of Education; librarian, cal 

aloguer, five library assistants; occupies a fine stone library building, fire- 
proof, erected in Cooper Park in 1886-87, and valued at 8100,000; contains 
35,325 volumes and 1,292 pamphlets; card and printed catalogues; museum 
attached; expenses, 1894 95, 810,830.50, of which 82,601.70 was spent for the 
purchase of books and periodicals, and jl,l)lll.o:i for the museum. 



CITY GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS 223 

POLICE DEPARTMENT. 

Organization.— Mayor and four police directors, secretary, police judge, 
clerk of the police court, superintendent, captain, Ave sergeants, detective 
sergeant, surgeon, seventy-five patrolmen (eight mounted), two turnkeys, 
court bailiff, two telephone operators, one police matron. 

Headquarters. — In City Building. 

Equipment.— One central station, two substations, one patrol house, two 
patrol wagons, one ambulance, sixteen horses. 

Finances.— 1894 : Receipts, $76,622.31; disbursements, 969,959.99; balance, Jan- 
uary 1, 1895, 16,662.32. 

A police benevolent association. 

WORK - HOUSE. 

Four directors, appointed by the Mayor, superintendent, matron; one 
work-house. 

FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

Organization. — Four fire commissioners, chief and secretary, first assistant 
chief, second assistant chief, seventy-six firemen. 

Equipment.— Twelve engine, hose, and hook-and-ladder houses; a fire- 
alarm telegraph system, with over one hundred boxes; four steam fire- 
engines; two chemical engines; thirteen hose wagons; three hook-and-ladder 
wagons; two telegraph wagons; three buggies; thirty-six horses. 

Finances.— 1895: Cost of maintenance, $67,217.29; value of real estate, $90,500. 

Service.— Number of alarms in 1895, 344; total loss, $21,978.05; total value of 
property where fires occurred, $2,012,675; total insurance, $1,011,557. The loss 
amounted to only about twenty-five cents per capita of the population. 

A firemen's benevolent association. 

WATER - WORKS. 

Established, 1870. 

Organization.— Three trustees, secretary, assistant secretary, chief engineer, 
first assistant engineer, second assistant engineer, superintendent of street 
department, two inspectors and collectors. 

Equipment.— One pumping-house; three engines, with combined daily 
capacity of 29,000,000 gallons; eighty-five eight-inch tube-wells, driven to a 
depth of forty-five to fifty feet; over ninety-six miles of street mains, 937 
fire-hydrants, 8,607 service connections, 1,300 meters. 

Finances.— Total expenditures, 1870 to December 31, 1895, $1,792,560.39; total 
income to December 31, 1895, $938,872.77; net cost to December 31, 1895, $853,- 
687.62; water-works bonded debt, November, 1895, $765,000, which is gradually 
being paid; cost of pipe, hydrants, etc., and laying of same, 1870-95, $700,000; 
received from sale of water, 1870-95, $860,926.83; net earnings, 1870-95, $342,000. 

Quality of the Water.— The quality of the water, by recent analysis, has 
been found to be first-class. It is clear, cold, and remarkably free from 
injurious matter. In a recent analysis an average of only forty-eight germs 
to the cubic centimeter were found in the samples examined. The average 
temperature in the pipes is about 50°. 

BOARD OF HEALTH. 

Mayor and six members of the board, health officer, secretary, meat 
inspector, four sanitary policemen. 



224 HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES 

CITTt INI- IKMAKY. 

Three directors, superintendent, clerk, city physician. 

MARKETS. 

Two market-houses, with street markets adjoining; one market-master. 

TAX COMM tSSION. 

Six members, appointed by the Mayor. 

TAXES. 

( Hty Expenses, 1891, 95. 

Board of Health and Sanitary LO mills 84,104 82 

Bridges 25 mills 10,262 05 

Elections 15 mills 6,157 23 

Fire Department 1.75 mills 71,834 37 

General Expense imi mills 24,628 93 

Hospitals ( Deaconess and St. Elizabeth) 05 mills 2,052 11 

Infirmary 05 mills 2,052 (1 

Lighting 70 mills 28,733 75 

Police Department L.10 mills 15,153 03 

Parks and Levees 05 mills 2,052 11 

Streel Cleaning 7.") mills 30,786 16 

Street Improvement 35 mills 14,366 87 

Sewers 05 mills 2,052 II 

Work House 05 mills 2,052 11 

SchoolPaving L0 mills 4,104 82 

6.10 mills $250,394 08 

City [nteresl and Sinking Fund 5.45 mills •-"-'•"..til' 7:i 

-I71.hu; si 
Board of Education, 1895 98. 

Regular Levy 7.00 mills 8288,974 19 

Manual-Training School 20 mills 8,256 11 

Public Library •_'.". mills 10,320 52 

Taxes for All Purposes, 1895-96. 

City, County, and State 26.00 mills $1,073,333 82 

Tax Valuation, 1895 96. 
Taxable Property $41,282,070 

BONDED DEBT. 

Oi in ml Bonds. 

( Principal and Interest payable from a direct tax upon t he < J-eneral 
I duplicate.) 

( Outstanding March I, 1895 

Bridge 868,000 00 

City Hall 7l,l«)lMiii 

City Prison 10,000 00 

Extending Indebtedness 150,000 00 

Fire Department 24,000 00 

Funded Debt 249,000 00 



PERIODICALS — CHURCHES 225 

Outstanding March 1, 1895— 

General Street and Improvement $50,000 00 

Levee 30,000 00 

Park Street Sewer 120,000 00 

Police Deficiency 30,000 00 

Sewer 150,000 00 

St reet Paving 528,000 00 

Southwestern Sewer 17,000 00 

Street Improvement 150,000 ill) 

Wolf Creek Improvement 50,000 00 

Water -Works 505,000 00 

Water- Works Enlargement 3,000 00 

Water- Works Improvement 280,000 00 

Total 82,197,000 00 

Improvement Bonds. 

(Principal and interest payable from assessments upon abutting or 
benefited property.) 
Outstanding March 1, 1895— 

Street Paving 51,178,000 00 

Sewer 180,000 00 

Special Assessment 86,165 00 

Total $1,394,165 00 

PERIODICALS. 

SECULAR. 

Daily. — Six, one of which is German. 
Weekly.— Nine, one of which is German. 
Monthly.— Two. 

Total.— Seventeen. 

RELIGIOUS. 

Weekly.— Eleven, one of which is German. 
Semimonthly.— Nine, one of which is German. 
Monthly.— Three. 
Quarterly. — Nine, one of which is German. 

Total.— Thirty-two. 

Grand Total.— Forty-nine. 

CHURCHES. 

Baptist, 11. Methodist Episcopal, African, 2. 

Baptist Brethren, 1. Methodist Protestant, 1. 

Christian, 2. Methodist, Wesleyan, 1. 

Congregational, 1. Presbyterian, 7. 

Disciples of Christ, 2. Protestant Episcopal, 3. 

Dunkards, 2. Reformed, 5. 

Evangelical Association, 2. Roman Catholic, 7. 

Hebrew, 3. Salvation Army, 1. 

Lutheran, 7. United Brethren in Christ, 12. 

Methodist Episcopal, 10. United Presbyterian, 1. 
Total, 81. 
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226 HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES 

CHURCH AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. 

PROTESTANT. 

Union Biblical Seminary, the theological school of the Church of the 
United Brethren in Christ; four professors, one general manager, and forty- 
three students. 

St. Paul's German Lutheran School, common branches. 

ROMAN CATHOLIC. 

Eight parochial schools and academies, 

St. Mary's Institute; twenty-one officers and professors, 275 students in 
Institute, and 120 students in normal department. 

PRIVATE. 

Miami Commercial College. Young Ladies and Misses' School. 

Dayton Commercial College. Home School for Boys. 

English Training School. Conservatory of Music. 

Deaver Collegiate Institute. Dayton College of Music. 

BENEVOLENT AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 

Young Men's Christian Association.— A Protestant institution, founded in 
1870; occupies a tine stone front building on the south side of Fourth Street, 
between Main and Jefferson; valueof property, over $100,000; membership, 
over 2,500; conducts religious, educational, and physical departments, includ- 
ing manual training and industrial education; has reception-room, par- 
lors, reading room, junior room, educational rooms, shop, entertainment 
hall, gymnasium, bath rooms, and athletic park; receipts in 1894-95,819,386.95; 
expenses, 819,269.65. 

Woman's Christian Association. A Protestant institution, founded in 1870; 
occupies excellent brick buildings on the south side of Third Street, between 
Ludlow and Wilkinson; value of property, 860,000; membership, about 
350; includes a young woman's department; conducts religious, charitable, 
educational, and physical departments, lunch-room, and exchange; has 

r pt ion room, parlors, reading-room, educational rooms, entertainment 

hall, industrial class room, gymnasium, bath rooms, etc.; receipts in 1894-95, 
84,279.41; expenses, 84,242.92. 

Young Women's League. — Founded In 1895; occupies a brick building on 
the west side of Jefferson Street, between Fifth and Sixth streets; member- 
ship, 450; conducts religious, educational, and physical departments, and 
lunch-room. 

Young Men's Institute.— A Roman Catholic institution; occupies a brick 
building on the south side of Fourth Street, between Ludlow and Wilkinson. 

,S7. Joseph's Institute. — Conducted by the Catholic Gesellen-Verein, for the 
benefit Of young men; organized in 1868; furnishes reading-room, gymna- 
sium, and free circulating library; building Located on Montgomery Street. 

Protestant Deaconess Home ami Hospital. — Founded in 1890 by the Protestant 
Deaconess Society of Dayton; occupies an expensive pressed-brick building 
On south side of Apple Street, between Main and Brown, costing, with 
equipment, about 8150,000; capacity, 17."> patients. 

,S7. Elizabeth Hospital. A Roman Catholic institution, founded in 1878; 
conducted by the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis; occupies a large brick 



SOCIETIES AND CLUBS 227 

building on the west side of Hopeland Street, between Washington and 
Albany, costing over $65,000; capacity, 242 patients. 

Widows' Home.— Founded in 1875, by the Woman's Christian Association; 
occupies a brick building on the northeast corner of Findlay and May 
streets; capacity, twenty-eight inmates; endowment, $37,358.79; receipts, 
for year ending October 5, 1895, S3.124.99; expenses, $2,911.59. 

Montgomery County CMldren's Home.— Founded in 1866; occupies a brick 
building on the east side of Summit Street, south of Home Avenue; number 
of inmates in February, 1895, fifty-one, of whom thirty-eight were boys and 
thirteen were girls; total received from the founding, 1,864. 

Christian Deaconess Home.— Monument Avenue, West Side. 

Children's Home. — 116 South Ringgold Street. 

Bethany Home.— For homeless girls and women; 159 East Park Street. 

National Soldiers' Home (Central Branch (.— Founded in 1867; located a 
short distance west of the city; grounds cover six hundred and twenty-five 
acres; number of inmates, about 6,000. 

Southern Ohio Asylum for the Insane. — Founded in 1852; located at the south 
end of Wayne Avenue; capacity, 800 patients. 

Humane Society. 

Women's Christian Temperance Union, No. 1. 

Women's Christian Temperance Union, No. 2. 

St. Joseph's German Catholic Asylum. 

Other Societies.— Numerous lodges of Masons, Knights of Pythias, Knights 
of St. John, Odd Fellows, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Grand Army 
of the Republic, Sons of Veterans, Woman's Veteran Relief Union, Order of 
United American Mechanics, Knights of Labor, trades unions, and other 
orders. 

LITERARY AND MUSICAL SOCIETIES. 

Present Day Club. Shakespeare Club. 

Woman's Literary Club. Philharmonic Society. 

" H. H." Club. Mozart Club. 

Emerson Club. Harmonia Society. 

Friday Afternoon Club. Maennerchor. 

POLITICAL CLUBS. 

Garfield Club. Thurman Club. 

Jackson Club. Lincoln Club. 

Gravel Hall Club. 

SOCIAL, CYCLING, GYMNASTIC, AND OTHER CLUBS. 

Dayton Club. Dayton Gymnastic Club. 

Dayton Bicycle Club. Dayton Turngemeinde. 

Y. M. C. A. Wheelmen. Stillwater Canoe Club. 

Dayton Lawn Tennis Club. Ruckawa Canoe Club. 

Dayton Angling Club. Dayton Camera Club. 

MILITARY COMPANIES. 

Phoenix Light Infantry, Company G, Third Regiment Infantry, Ohio 
National Guard. 

Gem City Light Infantry, Company I, Third Regiment Infantry, Ohio 
National Guard. 



228 HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES 

STREET-RAILWAYS. 

City Railway. — Third Street Line, from the easl end of Third Streel to the 
Soldiers' Home; electric; Length of Line, over six miles of double track and 
less than one-quarter mile of single track. 

Fifth street Line, from the easl end of Huffman Avenue to the Soldiers' 
Home; electric; Length of line, six and one half miles of double track and 
about one half mile of single track. 

Green Line, from the east end of Richard street to the corner of Fifth 
and Wilkinson ; electric; Length of Line, over two miles of double track, 

Authorized capital, $2,100,000; total length of lines operated, over fourteen 
and one half miles of double track and aboul three-quarters oi a mile of 
single track. 

Oakivood Street-RaUway.- from the north end of Salem street in Dayton 
View to Oak wood, at the south end of Brown street; electric; capital, $300,- 
000; length of line, about four miles of double track. 

White Line Street -Railway. — From the corner of Main street and Forest 
Avenue in Biverdale, via .Main, Third, Ludlow, Washington, and German- 
town streets to the Soldiers' Home; electric; capital, $400,000; Length of line, 
about six miles of double track. 

Wayne Avenue and Fifth Street Railway. — From the south end of Wayne 
Avenue, via Wayne Avenue. Fifth, Jefferson, First, Keowee, and Valley 
streets to the east end of Valley Street in North Dayton; horse-cars; capital, 
$100,000; Length of line, about three miles of double track and about one 
mile of single track. 

Dayton Traction Company.- South Main street, from the corner of Fifth and 
extending to Calvary Cemetery ; electric; capital, $250,000; length of line, one 
and one half miles of double track and one and one-half miles of single track. 

Total Length of streel railways operated, over twenty nine miles of double 
track and about three and one-quarter miles of single track. About two 
and one half miles of double track being used jointly, the net Length of 
double track is about twenty-six and one-half miles. 

STREET IMPROVEMENTS. 

Total length Of streets in the city, one hundred and fifty-eight miles, of 
which nearly twenty-five miles are paved, as follows: asphalt, fourteen 
miles; brick, nearly nine miles; granite, over one mile; Medina stone, over 
one-half mile. Total cost of paving, $1,800,000. Eighty-three miles of si reets 
are graded and graveled, and fifty miles are unimproved. 

Thirty-nine miles of sanitary sewers and forty miles of storm sewers have 
been laid, at a cost of $495,000. 

COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 

Board Of Trade. — Officers : president, first vice-president, second \ice pres- 
ident, secretary, treasurer, fifteen directors. 

National Banks. - Seven, with combined capital of $2,500,000, and cash assets 
Of over $3,000,000; a clearing house. 

Building <imi Loan Associations. Seventeen, with combined capital amount- 
ing to $43,350,000. 

Fire-insurance Companies (Home).— Seven, with investment of $700,000, 
and net assets amounting to $1,213,204 ; one underwriters' association. 

Incorporated Companies. One hundred and seventy, with capital stock of 
over $2"i,(KW,(HH). 



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Builders' Exchange.— Officers: president, first vice-president, second vice- 
president, secretary, treasurer. 

Gas Company. 

Natural Gas Company. 

Electric Light Company. 

Telegraph and ('able Companies.— Two. 

District Telegraph Company. 

Tib phone Exchange. 

Railways.— Eleven, with sixty-four passenger trains daily. 

Manufacturing Establishments.— Number, about one thousand; capital in- 
vested in 1894, $11,650,043; value of manufactured products, 1894,810,163,913.60; 
wages paid, 1894, $2, 176, 156. 15. In number of factories, in capital invested in 
manufacturing industries, and in wages paid, Dayton ranks as the third 
city in the State; in value of manufactured products, fourth. 

POSTOFFICE STATISTICS, 1895. 

Postage Receipts 8178,451.08 

Expenses of Office $74,648.98 

Number of Money Orders Issued 19,852 

Value of Money Orders Issued S154,3t>7.35 

Number of Money Orders Paid 60,058 

Value of Money Orders Paid $333,093.77 

Pieces of First-Class Mail Received 4,480,000 

Pieces of All Other Classes Received 3,948,800 

Special Letters Received 9,831 

Pieces of First-Class Mail Dispatched 7,020,907 

Pieces of All Other Classes Dispatched 7,054,850 

Special Letters Dispatched 6,257 

Registered Letters and Parcels Received 40,920 

Registered Letters and Parcels Dispatched 19,742 

Total Number Pieces Received and Dispatched 23,120,645 

Weight in Pounds of Second-Class Matter Mailed by Publishers... 47,441 

Number of Carriers 40 

Mail Trains Arriving Daily 39 

Mail Trains Departing Daily 42 

PARTIAL ENUMERATION OF MERCANTILE, MANUFACTURING, AND OTHER 
BUSINESS CONCERNS. 



Abstracters of Titles 4 

Agricultural Implements, Deal- 
ers 10 

Agricultural Implements, Mfs.. 

Architects 10 

Architectural Iron, Manuf 1 

Art Glass 1 

Artificial Flowers 1 

Artificial Stone Pavements 2 

Artists 22 

Asbestos Packing and Mill 

Boards 1 

Asphalt Pavements 2 

Asphalt Roofing 2 

Attorneys-at-Law 123 



Auctioneers 6 

Autographic Registers, Manufs. 2 

Awnings, Manuf s 4 

Bakeries 50 

Bakers' Supplies l 

Baking-Powder, Munufs 6 

Banks, National 7 

Barber Shops 120 

Barbers' Supplies 1 

Baskets, Manufs 9 

Bicycles, I lealers 13 

Bicycles, Manuf 1 

Blackboards, Slate Stone, ML... I 

Blacking, Manuf 1 

Blacksmith Shops 36 



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HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES 



Blank Hooks, Manufs 5 

Boarding Bouses 72 

Boal Houses 3 

Boats, Mamif 1 

Boilers, Steam, Manufs 4 

Bolt and Screw Cases 1 

Bookbinders o 

Bookbinders' Machinery, Mf... 1 

Book-Cover Dies and Tools 1 

Book Publishers 4 

Booksellers and stationers 10 

Boot- and Shoe-Makers 118 

Boots and Shoes. Retail -id 

Boots anil Shoes, Wholesale 1 

Boxes, Manuf 1 

Brass-Founders 3 

Brass Goods 2 

Brass Stamps 2 

Breweries 17 

Brick, Manufs 11 

Bricklayers 17 

Brickmaking Machinery 1 

Brokers 18 

Brooms, Manufs 11 

Brushes, Manufs 2 

Building and Loan Associations 17 

Candy, Manufs 4 

Candy-Molds, Manuf 1 

Canning Factory 1 

Carbon, Manuf 1 

Car-Furnishings, Manuf 1 

Carpenters and Builders lis 

Carpet Cleaners 7 

Carpet Dealers 14 

Carpet Weavers 11 

Carriages and Buggies, Dealers. . 4 

Carriages and Buggies, Manufs. !i 

Cars, Railroad, Manuf 1 

Cash Registers, Manuf 1 

Caterers 2 

Cement Pavements 13 

Chain, Manufs 2 

Chairs, Manuf 1 

China and Queen sware Dealers. 10 

church Furniture 1 

Cigar Boxes, Manufs 3 

Cigar Dealers •")•'; 

Cigars, Manufs 58 

Cistern Builders 5 

Civil Engineers 6 

Clearing-House 1 

Clergymen 135 

Clothing Dealers 27 



Clothing Renovators 19 

( 'oal Dealers 40 

Coal Miners 4 

( 'old Storage 1 

Commercial Colleges 2 

Commission Merchants ll 

( on fed i oners, Retail 55 

Confectioners, Wholesale 10 

Cooper Shops 7 

Coppersmith 1 

Corsets, Manufs 3 

Cotton Batting 1 

Daily Markets 112 

Dairies 25 

Dental Electrical Specialties 1 

Dentists 31 

Detective Agency 1 

Dressmakers 300 

Druggist, Wholesale 1 

Druggists and Apothecaries 55 

Dry Goods, Retail 44 

Dry Goods, Wholesale 4 

Dye Houses 2 

Electric Construction and Sup- 
plies 5 

Electric Light Company 1 

Electric Supplies, Dealer 1 

Electrical Engineers 2 

Electrical Goods, Manuf 1 

Electrotypers 2 

Employment Agency 1 

Engravers 

Express Companies 7 

Fancy Goods. 8 

Fans, Ventilating 1 

Feed Stores 32 

Fences, Manufs , 4 

File-Cases, Manuf 1 

Files, Manufs 2 

Fire-Alarm Operators 1 

Fi re-Brick and Clay 4 

Flavoring Extracts 2 

Flax-Mill 1 

Florists IS 

Flour-Mills 9 

Freight Lines 9 

Fresco Artists 2 

Fruit-Growers 11 

Fruits, Retail 10 

Fruits, Wholesale 6 

Furnaces, Warm Air 7 

Furniture, Dealers 10 

Furniture, Manufs 5 



COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL 



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Furniture-Cars 12 

Galvanized Iron Cornices 6 

Gas-Burners and Appliances... 1 

Gas Company 1 

Gas Company, Natural 1 

Gas-Engine, Manufs 3 

Gas-Fitters and Fixtures 15 

Gas-Machine, Manuf 1 

Gas Range and Heater. Manuf. 1 

Gasoline Stove, Manuf 1 

Grain Dealers 5 

Grain Elevator 1 

Grocers, Retail 307 

Grocers, Wholesale 9 

Guns, Pistols, etc 2 

Gunsmiths 3 

Hardware and Cutlery 12 

Harcrware, Wholesale 4 

Harness and Saddles 17 

Hats and Caps 20 

Hedges 1 

Hotels 19 

House-Furnishing Goods 8 

House-Movers and Raisers 2 

Hubs, Spokes, etc 2 

Hydraulic Machinery 2 

Ice, Dealers 3 

Ice, Manufs 2 

Ice Cream 13 

Ice and Refrigerator Machin- 
ery, Manuf 1 

Ink, Manuf 1 

Insurance Agents 38 

Insurance Companies, Fire 9 

Insurance Companies, Life 2 

Iron-Founders 10 

Iron Posts, Manuf 1 

Iron- and Wood- Working Ma- 
chinery 1 

Jewelers 26 

Justices of the Peace 4 

Kindergartens 3 

Lamps and Lamp Goods 1 

Lasts, Manufs 2 

Laundries 17 

Leather and Findings 2 

Lime, Plaster, and Cement 11 

Linseed- and Cotton -Oil Ma- 
chinery 2 

Linseed Oil, Manufs 4 

Lithographers 3 

Livery-Stables 36 

Loan Agents. 6 



Loan Offices 5 

Locksmiths 2 

Lumber Dealers 15 

Machine Knives, Manuf 1 

Machine Tools 2 

Machinists 15 

Machinists' Tools 1 

Malleable Iron Works 1 

Mantels and Grates 4 

Marble Dust 1 

Marble Quarry 1 

Marble Works 8 

Mattresses, Manufs 4 

Meats, Wholesale 2 

Mechanics' Tools 3 

Medicines, Patent 19 

Men's Furnishing Goods 32 

Mercantile Agencies 3 

Milk Depots 8 

Mill Supplies 4 

Milliners, Retail 41 

Milliners, Wholesale 2 

Mineral Water, Manufs 2 

Mittens, Manuf 1 

Model Makers 2 

Motor, Water, Manuf 1 

Music Colleges 2 

Music Publisher 1 

Music Teachers 80 

Musical Instruments, Dealers.. 5 

News Depots 8 

Notaries Public 114 

Notions, Retail 20 

Notions, Wholesale 5 

Novelties, Manufs 2 

Nozzles, Manufs 2 

Nurseries 6 

Nurses 37 

Oculists and Aurists 3 

Oils 15 

Opticians 5 

Overalls, Manufs 3 

Oysters, Fish, and Game 7 

Pails, Manuf 1 

Paint, Manuf 1 

Painters, House and Sign 73 

Paints, Oils, etc 7 

Pants, Manufs 3 

Paper, Dealers 3 

Paper, Manufs 7 

Paper Bags 1 

Paper-Box Makers' Machinery. 1 

Paper Boxes, Manufs 2 



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HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES 



Paper Bangers 27 

Paper I langings it 

Paper Mill Machinery 1 

Paper and Wooden Plate, ML... l 

Parquetry Floors 1 

Patenl Attorneys 3 

Patenl Solicitors 2 

Pattern-Makers ll 

Pension Attorneys 2 

Pension t hiiin A.gents 3 

Perfumery, Manul I 

Photographers it 

Photographers' Supplies 2 

Physicians II" 

Pianos and ( >rgans 7 

Pictures and Picture I'' rallies. .. it 

Planum Mills 8 

Plasterers 21 

Plo\v<, Manufs 2 

Plumbers 15 

Pork Packers 4 

Potteries 2 

Poultry Dealers 2 

Printers. Book and Job 26 

Pumps 8 

Putty, Manul 1 

Rags, .Metals, etc 7 

Railroad Ticket Brokers :! 

Railway < Jars, Manuf 1 

Kail\va.\ Supplies, Manuf 1 

Real Estate 62 

Restaurants 23 

Popes and Cordage l 

Rubber Goods 1 

Rubber stamps 3 

Sale Deposit < 'onipanies 2 

Saloons 399 

Sash, Doors, and Blinds, Manufs 9 

Sawmills 2 

Saws, Manufs 2 

Scales, Computing, Manuf 1 

School Furniture, Manuf 1 

Screws, Manuf 1 

Sculptors 2 

Sealing Wax, Manuf 1 

Second Hand Stores 2 

Seeds 1 

Sewer Pipe 7 

Sewing Machines, Dealers 15 

Sewing-Machines, Manuf 1 

sheet iron Workers •'! 

Shirts, Manufs (> 

Shoes, Manuf 1 



Showcase Dealers 2 

Si>.'ii Painters 10 

Soap. Manufs (i 

Spice-Mills 5 

Spraying-Machines, Manufs 2 

Stained (ilass 1 

stair Builder 1 

Stationers 12 

Steam-Engine Builders 3 

Steam-Fitters 7 

Steamship Agents 3 

Stencils 2 

Stenographers 6 

Sto.dc Yard 1 

Stockings, Manuf 1 

Stone-Cutters' Tools, Manufs. .. :; 

Stonemasons 22 

Stone-Quarries 3 

Si one ware 2 

Stone- Yards 5 

Storage -1 

stove Polish, Manuf 1 

Stoves, Manufs 3 

Stoves and Tinware, Dealers... .T> 

Straw Hoards, Manuf 1 

Si net < 'a is, Manuf 1 

st reel ( lonl ractors hi 

Street-Paving Contractors 2 

street Sprinklers 7 

Subscription Books 3 

Sweeping-Machines, Manuf 1 

Switch and ( !ar Locks, Manuf.. 1 

Table Slides, Manuf 1 

Tablets, Manuf l 

Tags, Manuf 1 

Tailors, Merchant 38 

Teas and Coffees, Retail 10 

Teas and Coffees, Wholesale J 

Telegraph Companies 3 

Telephone ( 'ompan v 1 

Telephone ( 'oust ruction I 

Theaters 2 

Tinware In 

Tobacco, Leaf 22 

Tobacco, Manufs ;j 

Tobacco Machinery l 

Toilet Articles, .Manuf l 

Toys 3 

Transfer Companies 2 

Trunk Materials 1 

Trunks, Valises, etc. 4 

Twines and Cordage 2 

Typewriters 3 



CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD 233 

Umbrellas, Manuf 1 Wheels, Manul 1 

Undertakers 10 White Lead, Manuf 1 

United States Commissioner.... 1 Wind Engines 1 

Upholsterers 10 Window Glass 2 

Varnish, Manufs 2 Window Shades B 

Veterinary Hospital 1 Wood Dealers 11 

Veterinary Surgeons 4 Wood- and Iron-Working Ma- 
Wagon-Makers 26 chinery 1 

Washing-Machines, Manuf 1 Wood Mantels, Manuf 1 

Water-Supply 2 Wood and Willow Ware 2 

Water-Wheels, Manufs 2 Yeast, Manufs 3 

CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD. 

1740 — French Major Celoron de Bienville ascended the La Roche or Big Miami 
River. 

1751— Gist visited the Twightwee or Miami villages. 

1780 — ( reneral George Rogers Clark led an expedition against the Indians of 
the Miami region, one of his officers being Colonel Robert Patterson. 

1782 — November 9, A skirmish between American soldiers under General 
Clark and the Indians on the site of Dayton, in which the Amer- 
icans were victorious. 

1786— Americans under Colonel Logan again defeated the Indians on the site 
of Dayton, one of the brigades being commanded by Colonel Robert 
Patterson. 

1789— Plans formed for a town named Venice on the site of Dayton. 

17!i.") — August 3, A treaty of peace made with the Indians at Greenville. < Ihio, 
l>y General Wayne — August 20, The site of Dayton purchased by 
Generals St. Clair, Dayton, and Wilkinson, and Colonel Ludlow — 
November, The town laid out by Colonel Israel Ludlow. 

1796 — April 1, Arrival of first settlers, by the Miami River, landing at the 
head of St. Clair Street; two other parties coming a few days later 
by land — Newcom's first log cabin built. 

179X— First sermon preached in Dayton by Rev. John Kobler, of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church— First Methodist Episcopal class, now Grace 
Church, organized, with eight members — Newcom's Tavern built— 
Taxes pai.l, $29.74. 

1799 — First Presbyterian Church organized — Blockhouse built — First school 
opened— First industries established, consisting of distillery, saw- 
mill, and coin-cracker mill — First lime made — First flatboat left 
for New ( trleans — Dayton three years old and contained nine cabins 
— Only two houses on Main Street — D. C. Cooper appointed justice 
of the peace. 

1800— Presbyterian meeting-house, eighteen by twenty feet in size, built of 
logs, on northeast corner of Main and Third streets — August 28, 
First wedding in Dayton, that of Benjamin Van Cleve and Mary 
Whitten —April 1-1, First child born in Dayton, Jane Newcom — First 
store opened, in Newcom's Tavern. 

1801 — First male child horn in Dayton, John \V. Van Cleve. 

1802 — Only rive families in Dayton — Ohio admitted into the Union. 

1803 — D. C. Cooper resuscitated the town — Montgomery County organized — 

Dayton made the county-seat — First court held in Dayton — New- 
com's Tavern used as court-house, jail, church, and country store. 



234 HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES 

1804— Post office and mail-route established Mail every two weeks, between 
Cincinnati and Detroit, via Dayton -Letter postage twenty to 
twenty live cents — Log jail built on Court house lot — First grist- 
ii) i 11 erected Taxes for the year. 8458.40. 

I silo— The town of Dayton incorporated — First town election held -Presby 
terian log meeting-house sold for twentj two dollars and services 
continued in log tavern— Dayton Social Library Society incorpo- 
rated—First brick building erected— First disastrous Hood. 

1806— First Court-house built, of brick, on present Court-house lot— Two 
brick stores erected -First newspaper published. 

1807— Dayton Academy incorporated. 

1808 First brick residence built — 196 votes cast — Repertory first published. 

1809— Freight line of keel-boats established between Dayton, Laramie, and 
St. Mary's— Fourth of July celebrated with a procession —First 
drug-store opened — First political convention in the county. 

1810— Population, 883— New sidewalks ordered by Select Council — Ohio Centi- 
nel first published. 

1811 — Nine tlatboats left for New Orleans, with products of the surrounding 
country — A comet visible, and severe earthquake shocks felt. 

1812— A company enlisted for the War of 1812— Ohio militia encamped in 
Dayton. 

1813 First society of mechanics organized — First Dayton bank chartered — 
August l.'i, Present < J rand Opera House lot, on southeast corner of 
Main and First streets, purchased by .lames Steele and Joseph 
Peirce for twenty dollars. 

1KU — First Methodist church completed — Ferry began to Operate at Ludlow 
Street— Ohio Republican first published — First Dayton bank opened 
for business— A 11 1. 

1815— Dayton Female ( 'haritable and Bible Society organized — First market- 

house opened About one hundred dwellings in Dayton, chiefly log 
cabins — Moral Society and Society of Associated Bachelors formed 
— First school for girls opened. 

1816— Firsl theater held in Dayton— Ohio Watchman first published. 

1817— New Court-house finished -Presbyterians erected a brick church — 
St. Thomas Episcopal Parish organized— Bridge across Mad River 
built — Bridge Street Bridge Company incorporated — First Sabbath- 
School Association organized — Only two carriages owned in Dayton. 

1818 — Stage coach line began to run between Dayton and Cincinnati. 

181!) — A keel-boat arrived from Cincinnati — St. Thomas Episcopal church 
Organized— An African lion exhibited at Keid's Inn -Bridge at 
Bridge street completed. 

1820— ( looper's Mills burned — Population, 1,000. 

1822— Montgomery County Bible Society organized — Lancasterian method of 
instruction introduced The Gridiron published — Seven tlatboats 
and one keel boat left for New Orleans. 

1823 Miami Republican ami Dayti ,,i Advertise)- first published. 

1824— First Baptist Church organized First cotton factory erected, by Thomas 

Clegg. 

1825— Law passed authorizing tin' construction of a canal from Dayton to 
Cincinnati -Stage line established between Columbus. Dayton, and 
Cincinnati— 4!I7 passengers by stage passed through Dayton during 
the year. 

1826— The Watchman and Miami Republican consolidated, and named the 



CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD 235 

Ohio National Journal and Montgomery and Dayton Advertiser, after- 
ward becoming tbe Dayton Journal. 

1827 — First volunteer fire company organized — Baptist society built a church. 

1828 — Water first turned into the canal — First canal-boat launched — Twenty 
stage-coaches arrived every week — First iron foundry established, 
now the Globe Iron Works — A flood. 

1829 — First arrival of canal-boats from Cincinnati — First temperance society 
formed — A new market-house built — Last factory established, now 
Crawford, McGregor & Can by 's Dayton Last Works — Steele's dam 
constructed — A majority of the First Baptist Church established a 
Campbellite church, now the Church of Christ. 

1830 — Population, 2,954 — Dayton Republican first published. 

1831 — First public school opened — Christ Church Parish organized — First 
Catholic family arrived in Dayton — R. C. Sehenck began practice 
of law in Dayton. 

1832— A fugitive slave captured in Dayton — First Board of Health appointed 
— Fifty-one brick and sixty-two wooden houses built — A silk man- 
ufactory established — Dayton Lyceum organized— First parochial 
school opened — A flood — Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad Company 
incorporated. 

1833— First Reformed Church organized — Mechanics' Institute organized- 
Population, 4,000— Thirty-three deaths from cholera. 

1834 — Democratic Herald first published — Police Department organized. 

183.") — Firemen's Insurance Company chartered. 

1836 — Main Street bridge opened for travel— First book published. 

1837 — Emmanuel Catholic Church dedicated. 

1838 — The "public square," now Cooper Park, prepared for and planted with 
trees — Convention held in the interest of free schools — Dayton and 
Springfield turnpike constructed — Montgomery County Agricul- 
tural Society organized — Erection of public school-houses ordered. 

1839 — Dayton Township first divided into election precincts — First county 

agricultural fair held— Population, 6,064 — Dayton Silk Company 
organized, with capital of $100,000 — First English Lutheran Church 
organized. 

1840 — Harrison campaign — General Harrison visited Dayton — Dayton Jour- 

nal began to issue first daily paper — Emmanuel Church of the 
Evangelical Association organized — Population, 6,067 — Paper-mill 
established — Montgomery County Mutual Fire Insurance Company 
organized. 

1841 — The works of W. P. Callahan <fc Company established. 
1842— Western Empire, now Dayton Times, established. 

1843 — Woodland Cemetery opened — John Quincy Adams entertained — Bank 

of Dayton chartered by the State Legislature. 

1844 — St. Henry's Cemetery opened. . 

1845— Bank of Dayton ( a State bank ), now the Dayton National Bank, organ- 
ized—Dayton Bank, to which the Winters National Bank traces its 
origin, organized. 

1846— Dayton furnished soldiers for the Mexican War. 

1847— Disastrous flood — Dayton Library Association organized — First United 
Brethren Church organized — First telegraph message received. 

1849 — Two hundred and twenty-five deaths from cholera — The Barney & 
Smith Car Works established — Dayton lighted by gas — St. Mary's 
Institute founded — W. C. Howells purchased the Dayton Transcript. 



236 HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES 

1850— Central High School established— Present old Court-house completed 

— city I Junk and Farmers' Hank opened — D. L. Bike, now the Rike 
Dry Goods Company, began business— First Hebrew Congregation 
organized— Population, 10,976. 

1851— Firsl railroad, from Dayton to Springfield completed— Cincinnati, 
Hamilton & Dayton Railway completed to Dayton— Firsl passenger 
station located al northeast corner of Jefferson and sixth streets- 
Miami Valley Bank established Dayton Insurance Company 
organized— Hebrew cemetery opened. 

1852— Probate Court of Montgomery County first opened— Southern Ohio 
Insane Asylum located al Dayton — Exchange Bank, successor of the 
Dayton Hank, opened— Dayton & Union Hail road opened for traffic. 

1853— United Brethren Publishing House, established in 1834 at Circleville, 
Ohio, removed to Dayton— Dayton & Western Railroad opened. 

1854 — First Orthodox Congregational Society organized. 

1855— Public Library established— The works of Pinneo <£ Daniels estab- 
lished. 

1856— Union Passenger Station erected. 

1857— Old < 'entral High School building erected. 

1859 — Stomps-Burkhardt chair factory established. 

18iio— Miami Commercial College established— Population, 20,081. 

1861-65 — Dayton furnished to the United states service 2,699 soldiers; under 

special calls of the State, 111!."); grand total of Dayton men in the 

service, 3,664. 

1862 — Lowe Brothers' paint factory founded. 

1863 Firsl National Bank, now the city National Bank, established —Sec- 

ond National Hank chartered -Miami Valley Insurance Company 
organized— First steam fire-engine purchased — Vallandigham ar 
rested — Journal office burned — Day ton & Michigan Railroad opened. 

1864 — Empire office mobbed— The Brownell Company began business. 

1865— Miami Valley Boiler Works established— Teutonia Insurance Com- 
pany organized — < »hio [nsurance Company began business — Atlan- 
tic ^ Great Western Railroad, now the New York, Pennsylvania <& 
Ohio, formed by tin nsolidation of several roads. 

1866 Great destruction by tlood -National Soldiers' Home located near 

Dayton — St il wed I & Bierce Manufacturing Company began business 
- Volks-ZeUung established Christian Publishing Association, estab- 
lished in 1843, reincorporated and located in Dayton. 

1867 -Central Branch National Military Home established near Dayton- 

Dayton Building Association No. I organized — Montgomery < Jounty 
Children's Home founded -Cooper Insurance Company incorpo- 
rated. 

1868 Me Hose a- Lyon Architectural Iron Works established— John Dodds 

began to manufacture agricultural implements. 

1869 first street railway constructed, on Third street Normal School 

opened— Dayton Malleable iron company incorporated Thresher 
& Company began to manufacture varnish —Sunday, May Hi, l a.m.. 
Turner's Opera House and adjoining buildings burned; loss, 8500,000; 
insurance, $128,000. 
L870 -Holly Water- Works established Young Men's christian Association 
organized Woman's Christian Association organized Population, 
30,473 Cincinnati "Short lane" Railroad, now a part of the Cleve- 
land. Cincinnati, Chicago & st. Louis Hail road, incorporated. 



CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD 237 

1871 — Union Biblical Seminary opened — Merchants National Bank incorpo- 

rated—Wayne and Fifth Street Railway and Dayton View Street- 
Railway chartered. 

1872 — Calvary Cemetery opened. 

1873— Metropolitan police force organized — Mutual Home and Savings Asso- 

.ciation organized. 
1874 — Philharmonic Society organized — New jail completed — Smith & Vaile 

Company began business. 
1875 — J. W. Stoddard & Company began business. 

1877 — Free night schools established— Crume & Sef ton Manufacturing Com- 

pany established — Dayton & Southeastern Railroad, now the Cin- 
cinnati, Dayton & Ironton, opened. 

1878 — St. Elizabeth Hospital founded— Woodhull's carriage and buggy works 

established. 
1879 — Dayton Daily Herald first published. 
1880 — Fifth Street Railway Company incorporated — Population, 38,678. 

1881 —St. Elizabeth Hospital erected. 

1882 — Third National Bank chartered —Columbia Insurance Company organ- 

ized—Reformed Publishing Company organized. 

1883— Serious flood — Montgomery County Bar Association organized — Elec- 
tric light introduced — Dayton Manufacturing Company incorpo- 
rated — Historical Publishing Company incorporated. 

1881 — New Court-house completed — National Cash Register Company organ- 
ized—Montgomery County Soldiers' Monument dedicated — Ohio 
Rake Company incorporated. 

1886— A destructive flood, damaging West Dayton. 

1887 — White Line Street-Rail way, the first operated by electricity, constructed 

— Union Safe Deposit and Trust Company incorporated— Pasteur- 
Chamberland Filter Company incorporated — Board of Trade organ- 
ized. 

1888 — New Public Library building occupied — Fourth National Bank incor- 

porated — Davis Sewing-Machine Company removed to Dayton — 
First street-paving laid, on East Fifth Street. 

1889 — Woman's Literary Club organized — Natural gas introduced— Teutonia 

National Bank chartered. 

1890 — Protestant Deaconess Society organized — First sanitary sewers laid — 

Lorenz & Company, music publishers, began business — Population, 
61,220. 

1891 — Dayton Computing Scale Company incorporated — Dayton Under- 

writers' Association incorporated — Deaconess Society opened a 

temporary hospital — Dayton Press established. 
1892— Columbian Centennial celebrated — Sey bold Machine Company incor- 
porated. 
1893— New High School building completed — Thresher Electrical Company 

began business. 
1894 — Deaconess Hospital completed and dedicated — Police matron appointed. 
1895— All street railways except one operated by electricity — Dayton Traction 

Company began to operate its line — Present Day Club organized — 

Young Women's League organized. 
1896 — Manual-training school opened — Population, about 80,000 — Sixty-four 

passenger trains daily — April 1, Centennial celebration begun. 












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